Everyone deals with tomato troubles now and then. Here are the most common and frustrating ones: Tomato hornworm: Follow the missing leaves until you find a huge, green caterpillar, plump after a diet of tomato leaves. Handpick them, toss them in the trash or leave them out for the birds. You can also use a spray that contains Bacillus thuringiensis, but the hornworm has to eat leaves sprayed with Bt before it can die. Blossom end rot: The blossom end of the tomato turns brown and soft. It's caused by an imbalance or lack of calcium and watering too much or erratically. The...
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